What a fascinating development in the NXT ecosystem! With all these NXT clones booting up it's hard to see how NXT itself can survive now. Why would a chinese investor pay big money for NXT when they can buy NEM? Is this a ploy to crash the NXt price?
Won't the creation of NEM halt development of NXT? Can a contributor seriously be working on two separate but identical projects at the same time? You're making NXT & NEM look too risky even for battle hardened crypto investors.
It really doesn't look good IMO.
Bitcoin had years to establish itself before it had to face competition, and NXT isn't even finished yet, and here we have some of the biggest NXT fans hiving off a clone - how bizarre.
Obviously NEX stimulated utopianfuture to quickly create a NEM announcement to make a statement against FrictionlessCoin, but now it appears something has motivated him to continue. How do the NXT community feel about this?
Obviously this is why Fuserleer has promised to release the emunie source much later in the development/launch cycle, and he's been very honest and open about his plans to do this all along.
Once utopianfuture received any sort of payment this can't be a joke any more, so I'm just shocked that he would risk NXT in this way, and potentially burn his reputation with the other NXT contributors.
I'm fascinated, and I suspect there's a lot more going on here that hasn't been revealed yet!!
edit: I have $2000 to invest in a POS coin. I've been following the NXT thread and can see that utopianfuture has established himself as a notable voice in the NXT community. Utopianfuture, should I buy some NXT or wait for NEM? This is a serious question, so please try and give me an honest answer. Saying 'it's up to you', or 'both' would be a cop out IMO.
To be honest so far you have appeared to be intelligent and committed, but I am considering the possibility that power and greed have messed with your thinking with NEM. I'm not picking a fight, just giving you feedback, and yes, I am a moderate holder of NXT, so I have a financial bias in favour of NXT over NEM, but at heart I'm an eMunie guy, so NXT & NEM are side interests for me.